The Vespa scooter as a menacing, mean machine? Perhaps, if you consider what kind of weapon of mass destruction the scooter was based on. The Annotated Budak has the answer on his blog.
A 125cc Primavera Vespa scooter takes pride of place at the basement of the National Museum, which is presenting a ‘retro’-spective gallery called “Weapons of Mass Desire: Design and Consumption in the Aftermath of World War II”. From kitchenware to street fashion, the exhibition attempts to trace the insidious path of technologies that moved from maiming people to killing time.
Read about the Vespa’s inspiration in The Annotated Budak. Weapons of Mass Desire is currently featured at the National Museum of Singapore until early 2009. Find out what other everyday mass-produced items were inspired by war machinery.
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